Sasha recommended Steinbeck to me and we had this book in our collection. What a great read! The language is so beautiful. I loved the short chapter on how the turtle walks through the field and crosses the highway.

The Joad family takes highway 64 in the book, starting from Salisaw to Gore. I looked it up on Google maps, and parallel to that old 64 is now... I-40, the highway I take to work everyday and which goes from North Carolina to California.

The speed on the highway seemed to be fairly similar to what it is today with a maximum speed of 65 miles per hour. Of course, the 'jalopies' did not make that speed.

Very cool that there is even a reference to the city we live in, or to be more specific to the tobacco that was produced here. Tom at one point says: "I wish I had some Durham".